W can't see beyond this November.

history major. what a fucking joke. he probably thinks the punic wars were fought by midgets.

WOMEN (18-26) INCLUDED IN DRAFT IN SPRING 2005!

If there are children in your family, READ this. There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills: S
89 and HR 163) which will time the program's initiation so the draft can begin at early as Spring 2005 -- just after the 2004 presidential election. The administration is quietly trying to get these bills passed now, while the public's attention is on the elections, so our action on this is needed immediately. Details and links follow.

Even those voters who currently support us. Actions abroad may still object to this move, knowing their own children or grandchildren will not have a say about whether to fight. Not that it should make a difference, but this plan, among other things, eliminates higher education as a shelter and includes women in the draft

Also, crossing into Canada has already been made very difficult.

Actions, actions, actions: Please send this on to all the parents and teachers you know, and all the aunts and uncles, grandparents, godparents.... And let your children know -- it's their future, and they can be a powerful voice for change!

Please also write to your representatives to ask them why they aren't telling their constituents about these bills -- and write to newspapers and other media outlets to ask them why they're not covering this important story.

The draft $28 million has been added to the 2004 selective service system (sss) budget to prepare for a military draft that could start as early as June 15, 2005. Selective Service must report to Bush on March 31,
2005 that the system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for activation. Please see website: www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html to view the sss annual performance plan - fiscal year 2004.

The pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide.. Though this is an unpopular election year topic, military experts and influential members of congress are suggesting that if Rumsfeld's prediction of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq and Afghanistan [and a permanent state of war on "terrorism"] proves accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to draft.



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5146.htm www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html

Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward this year,



http://www.hslda.org/legislation/national/2003/s89/default.asp entitled the Universal National Service Act of
2003, "to provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons [age 18--26] in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes." These active bills currently sit in the committee on armed services.

Dodging the draft will be more difficult than those from the Vietnam era. College and Canada will not be options. In December 2001, Canada and the U.S. signed a "smart border declaration," which could be used to keep would-be draft dodgers in. Signed by Canada's minister of foreign affairs, John Manley, and U.S. Homeland Security director, Tom Ridge, the declaration involves a
30-point plan which implements, among other things, a "pre-clearance agreement" of people entering and departing each country. Reforms aimed at making the draft more equitable along gender and class lines also eliminates higher education as a shelter. Underclassmen would only be able to postpone service until the end of their current semester. Seniors would have until the end of the academic year.

In one way a draft would be a good thing, especially if there were only the most limited of deferments. People won't be near as eager to support pre-emptive wars if they know their children or grandchildren are going to be sent to the front.

The small towns of the US are producing the volunteer military, it is time for everyone to feel the pain. It's easy to vote for something that doesn't harm you or yours. Let's get people with names like Bush and Cheney driving around Iraq in plastic Humvees. Let's give the chickenhawks a chance to back their leader with their blood.

Don't laugh... he's probably talking about Armageddon.

Why not get on your local draft board? I have applied.

President Dumbass is so stupid sometimes it almost matches his and his administration's incompetence. The Nixon administration is considered...um...what was that word...history! That's it. And a lot of us are alive. That guy is so stupid, so useless. I think he has actually gone insane. Seriously. He has some sort of messianic delusion and thinks he is anointed by some god to kill a lot of people in order to set them free and bring democracy to their graveyards.

If the Congress would quit delegating its authority to declare war we wouldn't be looking at this dilema today. To arbitarily allow the preznut to send our troops into combat is insane.

The only way we are going to continue pouring our youth into this administration's meatgrinder is to implement the draft. The only reason they are able to meet their military quotas today is because the job market is absolutely hopeless.

That C+ was the "Gentleman's C" issued as a courtesy to his family's social and financial standing within the alumni. He wasn't expected to work hard or excel in his studies. He was expected to contribute to the student environment by being there.

There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills: S 89 and HR 163) which will time the program's initiation so the draft can begin as early as Spring 2005 -- just after the 2004 presidential election.
The administration is quietly trying to get these bills passed now,
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What a load of crap.

The bills are DEMONCRATIC SHOW BOAT BILLS put up by Charlie Rangel in the House.

The administration has exactly ZERO to do with it.

Nice lie.

There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills: S 89 and HR 163) which will time the program's initiation so the draft can begin as early as Spring 2005 -- just after the 2004 presidential election.
The administration is quietly trying to get these bills passed now,
>>>

What a load of crap.

The bills are DEMONCRATIC SHOW BOAT BILLS put up by Charlie Rangel in the House.

The administration has exactly ZERO to do with it.

Nice lie.

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